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* Admitted to psychiatric hospital, a week after finding a shovel on her doorstep in an apparent death threat

2014

* March - Thomson jailed for a year for misusing HSU funds. After appeal he is convicted of theft but cleared of obtaining financial advantage by deception

* Williamson jailed for at least five years for "leeching" HSU of almost $1 million and recruiting others to hinder police

* June - royal commission into union corruption holds hearing into HSU

* Jackson denies misusing more than $1 million in union funds

* Commission hears Jackson set up an unaudited fund, using a $250,000 payment to the union, and used it as a slush fund, or as she put it, a fighting fund for union campaigning and administrative expenses

* August - Ex-husband Jeff Jackson tells commission he received $50,000 from the union as part of their divorce settlement

* Jackson loses bid to stop cross-examination by union barrister Mark Irving, with whom she had an affair 21 years earlier; she tells media it was a "charity shag"

* Accuses Bill Shorten of being in a group out to get her for exposing corruption at HSU

* November - Federal Court trial put off due to Jackson's health as HSU sues her for over $2.5 million, alleging she misused $1.3 million

2015

* February - Formally replaced as HSU national secretary by Chris Brown

* June 22 - Loses bid to stop civil case; argues she was targeted by union and ALP figures for bringing down Thomson and that documents vital to her case were lost or destroyed by HSU

* June 24 - HSU seeks to freeze her assets; court hears she has none left and is running out of money

* June 29 - Hearing put off after Jackson declares bankruptcy

* July 7 - Justice Richard Tracey says trial can proceed without her

* July 9 - HSU closes its case

* August 19 - Justice Tracey says the "evidence substantially supported the claims made by the HSU" and orders Jackson pay more than $1.3 million in damages for her misuse. Plus an extra $67,000 in over paid salary